It was less common in the southern colonies, where there were fewer educated women available as teachers, and where towns and villages were few and farms were so distant that the children could not ...

In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at how artists hope to inspire climate action with sometimes ...

The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is ...

In 1786, the young United States of America was nearly ripped apart by Shays’ Rebellion. Angry farmers suffering from debt ...

A motley crew of surfers, academics and fishers fight back against mining companies pillaging the country’s West Coast.

Receding waters caused by an unprecedented drought have exposed what was left of Kallio, a village submerged in the late ...

[3] Britain influenced the colonies more than any ... and forgery. Many southern states made more crimes capital, especially for slaves.[13] The first great reform era occurred between 1833-1853.

Today in History for Sept. 9: ...

It seems like the National Guard has been everywhere in recent years: Battling wildfires this week in California, patrolling ...

From Meridian Township and Base Line Road downstate to Burt Lake Up North, the earliest surveyors and their work have left an ...

More than 96 percent of Texas is privately owned. This makes us an outlier, especially among other big states. Alaska is more ...